KMY with novice.   Photo by Sonny Nyein     My sincere thanks to good friend Ma Thanegi for providing the following excerpt from her new book, This is Kin Maung Yin.   “The man… KMY, as he often signs his paintings, is more artist than man… the passion of his art suffuses his being [...]

Born in the middle of seven children, U Win Pe was a special child and his father’s favorite. From an early age he was leader of the family, second only to his father. He was a carefree child, popular and helpful to all, especially his parents who relied on him to do errands and watch [...]

For Win Pe, Paw Oo Thett and Kin Maung Yin the heyday of painting in Rangoon was the 1960s. It was an exciting and creative time for these young painters with many exhibitions at embassies and parties at homes of diplomats and other foreigners. But by the early 1970s, the Socialist military government had ruined [...]